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In simple terms, VMforce service will allow every Java developer to write applications that can run in the cloud. VMforce provides out-of-the-box Java deployment in the cloud that is pre-integrated with a relational database, full-text search engine, reporting and analytics, user and identity management., as well as all the services that are needed to build, run, and manage an enterprise-grade business application.

VMforce allows developers to use Spring, the most popular framework for Java applications today to rapidly build an application and instantly deploy it on an enterprise-grade cloud infrastructure. The Spring Framework is backed by the SpringSource division of VMware.



Why does VMforce matter?

CIO

CIOs no longer want to spend 85 percent of their budget just keeping the lights on. They want to unleash innovation and deliver business value. This year's Gartner survey reveals the top ten items on CIOs' budgets. Virtualization and cloud computing are at the very top of the list, which also includes web2.0, mobile, and data & document management.

With the Force.com cloud platform, CIOs today have access to more than 1,000 business applications on the AppExchange that work with our multi-tenant architecture and require no additional development. Indeed, customers are taking advantage of the platform to create custom apps. So far they have built more than 150,000 apps.. But CIO's want to do even more.

If you are a CIO, here are few questions to help to assess the need for VMforce:
How much time and money does it take to build applications today in your current environment?
How can you match the innovation of the Facebook Era and bring it to your enterprise? The Facebook generation is no longer just people just graduated from college but also baby boomers (see this New York Times report).
Are you able to deliver apps that are social and mobile?
How much time and money is wasted in kluging together disparate technologies just to get basic features like search and reporting to work?
What if you could use all your existing in-house Java skill sets but not have to worry about mundane tasks that provide neither business value nor agility?



Business User

If you are a business user, here is a simple set of questions to determine if you need VMforce. Log in to your one or two most heavily used apps and see if the following rings a bell:
Does your application run inside the web browser?
Does your application allow you to search by any keyword across all data that you are allowed to see?
Does your application allow you to write a report that aggregates relevant data? Can you create a dashboard yourself?
Does your application allow you to see your data when you are on an iPhone or a BlackBerry? Can you even connect to your application?
Does your application have a feed for relevant changes to data that you care about just like Facebook?

This is just some of the functionality we take for granted in our personal lives when we use applications like Facebook, Google Gmail, and Amazon.com.Why can't all business applications offer similar ease-of-use and access?

Developer

If you are a developer, here is a list of questions you need to ask about applications you want to build:
Can you start building your application right away or do you need to first install and fuse together ten different pieces?
Are you spending more time writing interesting, new applications or more time simply keeping the old ones running?
Are your OS upgrades, database upgrades, and hardware upgrades managed for you? Or do you have to spend time doing that?
Are you able to write the business logic of the application and then offer features like search and reporting? Or do you have to cobble it all together?
Are you using an infrastructure cloud today? If so, does it offer all the services you need to build your apps and does it automatically manage those for you?
Can you build apps that are mobile and social? How do you do that?
Are you having fun?

Programming used to be fun. We think it can be fun again if you can focus on what you do best and let all the painful stuff like OS and database patch upgrades be managed by the cloud provider.

How?

Java developers today have no clear path to building next-generation cloud applications. They can build on-premise applications and deploy them on legacy stacks, but installing and integrating the different pieces you need to build a truly useful application can be a nightmare. Or, they can take the same jumbled stack and run it in a hosted environment – renting servers by the hour by the month. While Infrastructure as a Service offerings have some benefits if you want to test an application or need spike capacity, they still require the developer and the systems administrators to do a lot of heavy lifting – it's like renting an empty apartment where water, electricity and garbage are provided but you must bring all the appliances, hook them up yourself, and make all the repairs. What you really want is a fully furnished apartment that you can customize to meet your needs and not be responsible for every minor upgrade or fix.

Before VMforce, a Java developer that wanted to run his applications in a cloud had to assemble, configure, integrate, and manage a cumbersome set of disparate pieces ranging from storage to application servers and a database. Even then the developer was only half-way done. Real business applications need more than just an app server and a database. CIOs need to meet demands of end users for features that most of us now take for granted and make it all work with their enterprise architecture. This includes:
Search: Ability to search any and all data in your enterprise apps
Reporting: Ability to create dashboards and run reports, including the ability to modify these reports
Mobile: Ability to access business data from mobile devices ranging from BlackBerry phones to iPhones
Integration: Ability to integrate new applications via standard web services with existing applications
Business Process Management: Ability to visually define business processes and modify them as business needs evolve
User and Identity Management: Real-world applications have users! You need the capability to add, remove, and manage not just the users but what data and applications they can have access to
Application Administration: Usually an afterthought, administration is a critical piece once the application is deployed



Java developers used to either spent days and months to build and integrate these features after they finished writing their business logic and user interface (what most people think of as an "application") or they simply avoided providing this functionality, even though it is critical to business users and to the CIO. Creating it was just too onerous. Developers needed to weave a net of technologies or perform a fusion of unrelated technologies offered as a set of products. And these are just the features of applications users have wanted during the last decade.

During next decade users accustomed to social apps like Facebook will demand features allow real-time collaboration and work in the new desktop-less world of iPhone's and iPad's. As a developer, how will you build these applications? What new technologies will you need to master? How many servers will you need to connect just to get a feed from your latest order tracking up so that it can be served up via iPhone to end users? Why is all this so hard? How can it be easier?
Social Profiles: Who are the users in this application so I can work with them?
Status Updates: What are these users doing? How can I help them and how can they help me?
Feeds: Beyond user status updates, how can I find the data that I need? How can this data come to me via Push? How can I be alerted if an expense report is approved or a physician is needed in a different room?
Content Sharing: How can I upload a presentation or a document and instantly share it in a secure and managed manner with the right set of co-workers?





Image: Force.com Application with Chatter feed

The Force.com platform makes building these data- and process-driven business apps really easy. With Chatter as part of the platform, you get many services out-of-the-box from feeds and updates to secure data access from your iPhone or Blackberry without having to write cumbersome code or connect to various gateways.

Meanwhile, in a land far, far away, VMware is transforming how businesses run their applications. With SpringSource as part of the VMware family, they have an incredible set of technologies to empower developers and CIOs. Java developers have known, used, and love the Spring Framework as a much more productive alternative to traditional technologies.

We have married the two sets of technologies to provide a rich development and runtime platform for Java developers. So let's see what it is comprised of and how it works.

Build

Now, with VMforce, Java developers can use the familiar Eclipse-based SpringSource Tool Suite (STS) development environment (IDE) – leveraging Force.com as a powerful relational database. Force.com provides much more functionality than any on-premise RDBMS from full-text search to analytics to mobile access. Simply, write the code in Java and store your data in Force.com; you then simply drag and drop the app into VMforce in your IDE and your app is now deployed on VMforce.



Run

The application runs on VMforce inside Salesforce.com data centers. VMforce is jointly managed and operated with VMware. The data is stored in Force.com where it is securely managed and backed up. In addition, application data can be searched, accessed on mobile devices, and reported on. The application runs on top of VMware vSphere, vCloud, and the tc Server, an enterprise version of Apache Tomcat.



Manage

Actually, there is not a whole lot to manage. The database, the search engine, the mobile capabilities, the business processes – all are managed for you. This is not your rent-a-server and perform-fusion-on-it cloud. This is true cloud computing – no software and no hardware to manage beyond your application logic.



So, there you have it – an enterprise cloud computing platform for running your Java applications using the popular Spring Framework – all running on technologies from VMware and Salesforce.com – the leaders in cloud computing. All integrated and managed for you. Hello Cloud!

Cloud 2: The Second Revolution

We believe that Cloud Computing is ready for a second revolution. The first one moved applications such as CRM, human resources, and payroll into the cloud and provided functionality similar to on-premise technologies. The next-generation of cloud applications will not only run in the cloud but also offer features and functionality that meet the Facebook imperative of a social, desktopless world. We call it Cloud 2.

VMforce, a service jointly offered by our partner VMware and Salesforce.com, can help you build Cloud 2 apps on a trusted cloud infrastructure (Force.com) using a programming language (Java) and framework (Spring) familiar to millions of developers.

Java Developers can now go from "Hello World" to "Hello Cloud"!

Now What?

If you are a CIO, IT leader, or a business user:
Register at www.vmforce.com or contact your Salesforce.com or VMware account executive
Watch these videos to learn more about Salesforce.com and VMware
You can get started with a Free Force.com Developer Edition and not only build but deploy and run applications at no cost!
Encourage your development team to start building applications using the Free Force.com Developer Edition



If you are a developer:
Register at www.vmforce.com to get the latest updates including availability and beta signup information
If you are a Java programmer and already familiar with Spring, you can learn about Force.com at developer.force.com
You can sign up for the Free Developer Edition, which includes all the great features mentioned earlier and start building Force.com apps and/or learn how to write these apps
If you are a Force.com developer and want to take advantage of Java, click over to www.springsource.com and learn to build Spring-based Java apps by using the SpringSource Tool Suite and all the innovation in the Spring community


Salesforce.com and VMware are forging a high-profile partnership, according to a Web site announcing an April 27 event being held by the companies.

The site, VMForce.com, includes few details about exactly what is planned, saying that Salesforce.com CEO Marc Benioff and VMware CEO Paul Maritz will "make an exciting joint announcement on the future of cloud computing."

"VMForce is coming," a headline reads. "See it here live on April 27."

Representatives for both vendors did not immediately respond to requests for comment Monday.

The VMware partnership could result in some type of virtualization-as-a-service offering, but other evidence makes the guessing game more difficult.

VMware has recently made moves toward application development, purchasing Java tools maker SpringSource, as well as business applications in general, scooping up the Zimbra e-mail and collaboration suite from Yahoo.

In turn, Salesforce.com has been broadening its offering beyond pure CRM (customer relationship management) with efforts like the Force.com development platform, its AppExchange marketplace and FinancialForce.com, accounting software that is the result of a joint venture with Unit 4 Agresso.


Salesforce.com and VMware will unveil today a new platform offering that brings development of enterprise Java apps to the cloud. Called VMforce, the new venture will target the millions of Java developers who use the Spring framework, enabling them to write apps on top of Force.com.

tito ortiz domestic violence

Cops arrived at the couple's home responding to a 911 today at 9:53 AM. According to TMZ, Tito was arrested for felony domestic violence.

Tito is in custody and heading to the Huntington Beach jail in Orange County, CA. Tito and Jenna are the unmarried parents of twin boys.

The police received a 911 call at 9:53 am reporting a disturbance at the home. The website ran photos of Ortiz being led from the home in handcuffs.

SLIDESHOW: Photos of Jenna Jameson.


Jameson was referring to their twin sons, Jesse Jameson Ortiz and Journey Jett Ortiz, born in 2009.

Police arrived at their Huntington Beach, CA home and found Jameson with "visible injuries," TMZ reported.

Tito Ortiz was arrested today for felony domestic violence. According to TMZ, Tito Ortiz was arrested, and

Jenna Jameson was injured at the scene. There have immediately been correlations drawn between
the two
instances of circumstantial evidence, and the allegation now is that Tito Ortiz assaulted Jenna Jameson at the home that they share. The report stated that a call was placed to 911 this morning, reporting that a disturbance was taking place at their home in Huntington Beach, Calif. It is then that Tito Ortiz was arrested on felony charges, and it was clear that Jenna Jameson was suffering from visible injuries.

susan powell

The parents of Powell, her husband Josh Powell's sister, Jennifer Graves, and Graves' husband Kirk Graves appeared on the show with Cox family spokeswoman Shelby Gifford.
7, when he left to take the couple's two young boys camping in a remote part of Tooele County.


"The thing that has bothered me the most about Josh's behavior is that he has been uncooperative with the police in giving them any details," she said.

Much was made of the couple's two young sons, now 3 and 5, who are in Joshua Powell's custody.

Charles "Chuck" Cox, Susan Powell's father, said he and his wife haven't seen the boys since Jan. 3 despite attempts to reach Joshua Powell on numerous occasions. He said the oldest boy told police in an interview that he did go camping, but Chuck Cox said he knows that his daughter would not have allowed her boys to go camping under such circumstances.

"If she had a breath in her body, she would not let them out at that time in the morning," he said.

"We will be talking to them," he said.

In an e-mail Monday, family spokeswoman Shelby Gifford asked the media to refer to Susan Powell as Susan Cox Powell. Gifford said this was because those who loved her knew her as Susan Cox, though the world knows her as Susan Powell. The foundation started in her name will be the Susan Cox Powell Foundation.
The mystery of her disappearance has since deepened, and authorities are now treating the case as a criminal investigation. Concerned that the family could have succumbed to carbon monoxide poisoning, police, accompanied by a family member, entered the Powell family home. At this time, it remains unclear if the "wet spot" is connected to the case, as police are refusing to comment.

As the investigation continued, Joshua Powell showed up at his home on the evening of the 7th, along with the couple's two children. Investigators attempted to verify the story by visiting the area in question; however, recent snowfall made it impossible to determine whether anyone had been there.

Two days after Susan was reported missing, police confiscated the family’s van to search for evidence. The contents of the warrants are currently sealed by the court; however, The Salt Lake Tribune has filed a motion to have them opened.
In addition to the warrants, police have named Joshua Powell a "person of interest" in the case.
Increasing police pressure and media tension caused Joshua Powell's father, Steven Powell, to break his silence and speak out about the case. During a brief interview with The Salt Lake Tribune, the elder Powell said his son was being "vilified."

Further prompting from reporters caused Powell to clam up again, and he asked to be left alone.

"I don't need to explain anything," Powell said. "There is nothing to explain." Authorities say they have no reason to prevent the move and that he is free to come and go as he pleases.

Meanwhile, Susan's friends and family members continue to raise awareness of her disappearance and have taken the search to the Internet – setting up pages on Facebook, Twitter and Youtube.
It was the first visit they’d been able to arrange with Josh in more than 3 months.

Shelby said Josh was there and was … well … Josh.

Also there was Josh’s father, Steve, who was taking pictures of the Cox grandparents with Charlie and Braden.

I admit that in the past I have been critical of Josh and his apparent willingness to use visitation as a tool to punish the Cox grandparents.

After all, back in January, the Cox family started turning up the heat on Josh by publicly challenging their son-in-law to step up and cooperate fully with the West Valley Police.

suntrust online banking

Suntrust Online Banking is offering its customers with a new and advanced system of banking products and services so that they could shop for their banking facilities from a single point and that is the Online route of service provision.

Now, what are the advantages of Suntrust Online Banking?

A customer could access all the details of his personal account or accounts. This online facility can be availed from anywhere provided the person concerned has a personal computer with proper Internet connection.

The products and services associated with it are viewing account details, Online any time payment of various bills. The secured and timely payment of these bills are also guaranteed by the Suntrust Online Banking. The customers can also experience the customized and personalized services provided by the Suntrust Bank through the Online channels.

All the above mentioned advantages has made it possible for the account holders to manage their finances in a more efficient manner. This gives the customer that extra sought after mileage in getting the required control over the expenditures and overall finances.

This Online route accelerates the pace for accessing the banking products and services. This process is also easier to get hold of and makes banking a hassle-free affair. The most important aspect of Online banking is the security of the personal information of the account holders supplied in the process of Online banking.

Characteristic Features of Suntrust Online Banking :-
The best way to have a control on the personal finances is through Online banking. It is most helpful in the sense that the customers could access the various accounts from a single point. Thus, it becomes hassle free and convenient to use. The most significant aspect of Suntrust Online Banking is that the services can be accessed at any point of the entire day and all round the year. The customer could view his account details and could also give instruction for the bills at any time according to his convenience.

Payment of the bills are a hectic job for the busy persons. Bill payment eats into the valuable time and energy of the person. Suntrust Online Banking helps the customers to exploit the banking services to pay all the bills. This not only is easy to perform but also quick and hassle free. This service is provided free of cost to the customers by the Suntrust Bank. Through this Online service one could both pay and receive their bills. Now, what are the different advantages for availing the bills ?

The account holder will be entitled to receive the bills through the online channel. This can be viewed by the same instantaneously and he could also make the payment of the required sum at any time in accordance to his convenience.

Customers are also privileged in setting up the recurring payments which surface every month on a regular basis.

This bill payment facility is not restricted to a typical region of the United States Of America, but to the entire country. The bill payment can be done to any place within the boundary of USA.

The bills can be accessed or received by the customer through online and is commonly known as electronic bills or e-bills.

Payments which have been scheduled can also be viewed by the account holders through Suntrust Online Banking.

Earlier it was very tough job to give a glance to the bill payment of the past. But from the inception of the online banking, the payment history of the bills can be viewed by the customer for the period of the last 6 months.



Accounts for the credit cards can also be accessed by the account holders. They are entitled to perform the following practices through the Online services :-

The account holders of the credit cards can access all the informations regarding the balances available in the same. They are also entitled to see the historical transaction reviews along with the detailed informations of the account.

The customers can also make the payments of the outstanding debts through Suntrust Online Banking.

The customers are able to request for the cash advances from the credit card company by exploiting the Online channels.

The monthly or regular statements of the credit card can be observed by the account holder by the help of Internet.

The account meant for the credit card needs to be serviced on a regular basis. This activity can be done by the customer through the online route.


Suntrust accounts can be managed in an efficient way through online channels. What are the facilities associated with this account management service? Let us see:-

The accounts of the account holders can be accessed by the concerned individuals all round the clock. Not only this, the Suntrust Online Banking gives extra mileage to its customers through the facility that they could borrow the money from their account at any time of the day and from all over the globe.

All the minute details of all the transactions can be viewed by the customer through the Online website. The transaction etails are not only the present ones but also include the historical ones. There are many transactions which are scheduled to take place but are pending to be made. These still to be made transactions can also be viewed by the accoun holers. All the details regarding the informations of the account can be observed by the account holder.

There are two accounts of Suntrust Online Banking, namely money market account and/or checking account, through the help of which an account holder can square off the outstanding debt of his unpaid loans. The requests regarding this can also be forwarded through this Online channel.


Fund transfer can be done by the account holders within the different accounts of the Suntrust Online Banking. The different accounts available in the bank includes savings account, checking account and account meant for the money market. Hence the customers of the bank can transfer the funds in their accounts from one to the other through the online route.

The customized service regarding the transfer of fund is available to the account holders of the Suntrust bank. This is done through the scheduling of the fund transfers of various types. This scheduling may be for the immediate ones or may be in a date of the future. The payments which are of the form of recurring type can also be made through the fund transfer mechanism. These recuuring type transfer of funds can also be pre-scheduled.

All the above mentioned transfer of funds of the scheduled type can be viewed by the account holder by logging on to the official website of Suntrust Online Banking. These transfers are not only the present ones but can also of the historical types. The past transfer of funds can also be viewed by the customers.


Account holders of the accounts of Suntrust Online Banking can now on be able to monitor their respective accounts in a more efficient manner. This monitoring service facility can be availed by the customer with no extra charge and is a free service. So, let us explore the various ways attached with the free service of monitoring of the respective accounts. And they are :-

The alerts regarding the payment position of any type attract alerts from the Suntrust Online Banking. These alerts are sent to he respective account holders through the medium of e-mail.

The alerts can be availed by the customers on daily basis. This alerts are generated online for informing the same about the balance available in the account.

Alerts are also generated and sent to the account holder when ever the balance in the current account become negative.

Customers also have the facility of setting the alerts in accordance with the balance availability. A benchmark level of the balance in the account of the account holder can be set by the same. Whenever the balance in his or her account starts to increase then an alert is generated Online to inform the customer about the same. In case of the reverse condition too, the alerts are generated.


Suntrust Online Banking also provides its customers with the Do It For Yourself facility. What is this? And what the advantages of the same? Let us explore.

The customers have the facility of updating the personal informations regarding the contact details. In addition to this, he could also make updation of the informations related to the security of his account. This facility is a easy process.

The statements regarding the deposit account can be viewed by the account holders for the last one and half year.

The images of the canceled checks of the customers can be viewed by him at any point of time. The canceled checks are the checks which through which the transactions are already been made.

Suntrust Online Banking also gives its customers the service of reordering the checks through the Online medium.

The bank facilitates its account holders by which they are entitled in receiving or sending the messages in a secured way to and from he Suntrust Online Banking.


The home page of the customer's Online account can be structured by the account holder himself in accordance with his personal requirements and preferences. In addition to all the detailed informations of the bank, the Suntrust Online Banking provides its customers with the additional attributes namely, news, weather and informations on the latest developments of the selected stocks.


The news informations could include the latest updated informations on

politics,
updates on international relations,
all the available latest developments in the field of business,
sports and associated news,
entertainment issues from various fields,
informations and latest news on the health related issues


The news related to the weather of the local area can also be set in the web page of the customer. In this page, one can also get the informations on the weather forecasts of the coming five days.

The informations on the stock market can be set in the web page. The web page can be customized to include the various updates on the movement of the price of the various selected stocks. The different informations on the stock that can be availed by the customer includes :-

Name of the company and the corresponding bid/ask prices.
The symbol of the selected companies can also be downloaded in the form of ticker which gives a continuous view of the same.


Bill Payment facility provided by Suntrust Online Banking
The most significant advantage provided by the Suntrust Online Banking is the bill payment facility that can be materialized through the click of the mouse. This Online bill payment process is not only hassle free but also cost saving. The late fees, and the associated costs related to buying of checks, envelopes and stamps. The bills which are paid through this channel are made at the right time and at the right place without any security breach. In fact it has been observed that the the paper bills are more exposed to theft or misplacing. In case of the online bill payment, the Suntrust Online Banking provides its customers with the latest and advanced technologies for prevention of the identity and the personal information theft.

In order to avail the bill payment through Online route, the account holder has to register himself for the same in the designated website. This enrolling is a must for availing the service of the same if the customer is not yet enrolled with the Suntrust Online Banking. For them they have to sign up through the Online channel for getting hold of the online bill payment service.

Through this Online bill payment facility the customer can do he following activities :-
The bills that have to be paid can be managed by the customer through a single screen. This helps them to easily access the bill payment particulars from any point of time and from any any convenient computer.

The customers are given the liberty by the Suntrust Online Banking for paying that much amount of money that he or she is interested to pay. The account holder can also choose the date on which the requisite payment would be forwarded by the bank. The instruction for the date of delivery of the bill can also be scheduled on the same day or the next day of the instruction.

The bill payment to either individuals or the businessmen can be done through this Online route, provided he or she resides in the boundaries of the United States Of America. It is not mandatory or required for the other party, who is receiving the bill amount, to have an access to the Online channel of banking.

In case of the Suntrust Online Banking if a person opts for the Online bill payment facility then it does not mean that the concerned person would not be able to pay the same through the paper checks. In fact, after the enrollment for paying the bills through the online route, the customer is entitled to pay off the bill in both he channels, namely, online bill payment facility and the bill payment through the checks in the paper format.

The money remains in the account of the account holder till the payment has been made. The payments are made at the right time because the customer can set the timing for the monthly or regular payment. So, in case of Suntrust Online Banking there is least chance of any type of the payment miss or any additional late payment charges. So, what are the things that a customer can do? The various activities include :-

The customers can schedule the payments of the bill of various nature such as One time payment or the recurring payment.
The account holders could review their history of the payment particulars for he period of the last six months
The status of the bill payment can be checked by the account holder at any point of time.
After the scheduled payment has been done, the account holder is entitled to receive a number known as the Confirmation Number which is a symbol thet the payment has already been processed and done.


A special guarantee is given to the payment of the bill. This makes the bill payment more accurate in terms of time and the destination. The payments are guaranteed to reach the destined places at the right time. This payment will be materialized at that time only when the scheduled time is set by the customer. If there is any type of late payment then the charges and fees associated with it are liable to be paid by the Suntrust Online Banking.

Now, the schedule of the bill payment enrollment for various time frames are given in the following manner :-

If the enrollment for the bill payment is done before 12 am of Saturday or Sunday or Monday then the service will be materialized on Tuesday before 8 O'Clock in the morning.

If the enrollment for the bill payment is done before 12 am of Tuesday then the service will be materialized before 8 O'Clock in the morning on Wednasda before 8 O'Clock in the morning.

If the enrollment for the bill payment is done before 12 am of Wednesday then the service will be materialized before 8 O'Clock in the morning on Thursday before 8 O'Clock in the morning.

If the enrollment for the bill payment is done before 12 am of Thursday then the service will be materialized before 8 O'Clock in the morning on Friday before 8 O'Clock in the morning.

If the enrollment for the bill payment is done before 12 am of Friday then the service will be materialized before 8 O'Clock in the morning on Saturday before 8 O'Clock in the morning.


The security given to the personal informations of the customer by the Suntrust Online Banking is phenomenal. This protection is ensured by them through multiple layers of security measures which include

128 bit encryption system which ensures that the personal informations can't be decoded during he transmission of the data.

Protection ensured through installation of firewall in the personal computer through which the customer is getting access to his or her personal account.

The validity of the password is carried out.

In case the customer does not access his account page for some time after opening the same then the page logs out automatically.

Suntrust Online Banking provides its customers with the guarantee protection to the respective account. Even if there is any kind of security breach and there takes place any kind of unauthorized transaction, then the customer is entitled to receive the siphoned off amount from the bank itself.


Some of the unique features associated with the online bill payment services of Suntrust Online Banking are as follows :-
The account holders who have enrolled for accessing such a service have the facility of adding up new billers to the list of already registered billers (some regular and some occasional). The customers have two ways in identifying the biller and those are :-

by the category of name of the company
by the category of phone number

The payments which are pending can be changed by the account holder at any point of time and from anywhere.

The alerts are generated Online and sent to the account holder through the e-mail on two most important situation namely,

when the date of payment is coming closer
when the payment of the bill has already been made
This is a special facility provided by the Suntrust Online Banking to its customers in order to inform them about the forthcoming bill payment schedule. The alerts are also generated to the customers when the bill payment process is over. This is done in order to confirm the bill payment to the customer which acts as a receipt for them.

The credit card accounts can also be viewed by the customers of Suntrust Online Banking. What are the facilities they are entitled to receive? They can not only view the history of transactions that has taken place in the credit card account but also the informations in the account and the balances in the same. The account holders can also pay the requisite amount of the credit card through the Online payment facility. The statements associated with the transactions in the credit account can be viewed by the customers. They can also request for any cash advances from the concerned credit card company through Suntrust Online Banking.





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Why run Richmond? It’s the little things that add up. Course amenities, like junk food stops and wet washcloths. Friendly and courteous volunteers who treat you like more than just a bib number. Even an online registration system that doesn’t hit you with extra fees to sign up. It’s what led Runner’s World to confirm what we’ve been saying all along: The SunTrust Richmond Marathon truly is “America’s Friendliest Marathon”!


Central Virginia is full of interesting cities and attractions including Richmond, the "Capital of the Confederacy" as well as the state capital. And don't miss Paramount's Kings Dominion Theme Park just north of Richmond.

In an ironic twist, Richmond is also known as "the birthplace of black capitalism", so the region is layered in American history. Some examples of this include the home of Maggie Walker, the first female bank president in America, also the daughter of a former slave. Also explore the Richmond National Battlefield Park Visitors Center, which features over 1400 acres of civil war sites and has an exhibition on the role of African Americans during the War between States. If modern is more your style, visit the Virginia Museum of fine arts; home to various national art treasures.

Other Historical Sites in Central Virginia include many presidential estates in and around Charlottesville:

Thomas Jefferson's Monticello
James Monroe's Ash Lawn-Highland
James Madison's Montpelier
Patrick Henry's Red Hill

The National D-Day Memorial was built in Bedford to honor the community that lost more solders per capita than any other during the invasion of Normandy during World War II.

Central Virginia offer everything from ballooning and camping to horseback riding and tennis, 11 State Parks and beautiful gardens.

For cultural interests, see the spectacular Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, tour more than 20 Vineyards & Wineries, and enjoy events such as heritage festivals, steeplechase races and arts and crafts fairs.

subway free breakfast

Subway is giving away its southern California breakfast for free today on 27th April, which includes a cup of coffee too. This is the same breakfast which is similar to $2.50 deal offered in their website, but the visitors are going to get 8 oz coffee instead of 16 oz as mentioned in website.

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Somebody told me she saw a commercial for Subway for a free breakfast today. I dug around You Tube and found the commercial HERE- it looks like the breakfast is available to Southern CA residents only from 7-11am tomorrow. You get a sandwich and an 8oz coffee with no purchase necessary.

Get your free SUBWAY English Muffin Melt on Friday, April 30! In honor of its healthy new breakfast menu, all SUBWAY Wisconsin restaurants will help you start the day right with an absolutely FREE, no purchase necessary, delicious English Muffin Melt. Long-time SUBWAY fans and new converts are welcome to try the yummy new breakfast sandwich at SUBWAY this Friday, April 30, from 7:00 – 11:00 a.m.

It’s easy to get your free SUBWAY breakfast on! Stop in and order your free English Muffin Melt served on a light muffin with a fresh, regular egg omelet or light, egg-white omelet. Then simply choose your favorite accompaniment to build your perfect sandwich, including black forest ham, western-style, double bacon, steak or sausage.

sprint nextel

Subscriber and profit losses continued in Sprint Nextel's first quarter as the firm prepared to launch an innovative handset and a nationwide 4G network that it hopes will return it to its former glory and profits.

The company said it lost $865 million on revenue of $8.1 billion.

The Nextel operation continued to be an albatross around Sprint's neck. After failing to sell the iDEN network, Sprint hunkered down and repositioned it as a prepaid network.

Sprint may be betting the store on the success of its 4G network and its majority ownership of Clearwire, which is rolling out a nationwide WiMax high-speed network. The deployment of the network appears to be accelerating, as Sprint said its 4G service currently serves nearly 40 million people and coverage is expected to reach as many as 120 million people by the end of the year. The U.S. solar bellwether is releasing its first quarter earnings after the market close on Wednesday, and more and more focus from the Street has been on how First Solar is transitioning to the largest-scale, utility project-oriented solar space. The decline in cancellations during the first three months of 2010 indicates the company's turnaround effort is showing progress, but a key part of its business experienced further weakness. Sprint lost 578,000 postpaid subscribers, mostly in its Nextel division. executives endured more than 10 hours of congressional grilling in one of the most public, and most hostile, political lashings in the firm’s 141-year history. They probably succeeded in that.”
At 08:30 am ET, the S&P 500 futures rose 4.90 points to 1,185.90. The Dow Jones Industrial average futures climbed 28 points to 10,983. The Nasdaq Composite futures gained 10.75 points to 2,019.50.

Sprint Nextel (NYSE: S) said Wednesday that its first quarter net loss widened to $865 million or 29 cents per share, compared to net loss of $594 million, or 21 cents per share, in the comparable quarter last year. (NYSE: WLP) reported that its first-quarter net income rose to $876.8 million or $1.96 per share, compared to $580.4 million, or $1.16 per share, in the year-ago quarter. Adjusted earnings climbed 7.8% to $871.9 million, or $1.95 a share, from $808.8 million, or $1.62 per share in the prior-year quarter. Total revenue dropped to $15.1 billion from $15.14 billion in the prior year quarter. At 13:24 pm London time, the UK FTSE rose 1.10 points or 0.02% to 5,604.62. The German DAX and French CAC increased 0.80% and 0.81% respectively.
The Nikkei 225 fell 287.87 points or 2.57% to 10,924.79. The Hang Seng index of Hong Kong slumped 312.39 points or 1.47% to 20,949.40.

NYMEX Crude oil for May delivery declined 7 cents to $82.37 a barrel in electronic trading.


Sprint Nextel Corp. Contract customers are considered the most lucrative.

The rating is based on predictions that Sprint can stabilize its contract customer base through the second quarter and find new areas to manage or cut costs, as well as on its current share price being on the low end of the sector’s historical range, the note said.

The second quarter, which started at the beginning of the month, is the “most likely quarter ... for Sprint to meaningfully best expectations,” the note said.

sandra bullock adopts black boy

SANDRA BULLOCK has hit the headlines. Everyone on the net has been searching for Sandra Bullock divorce, Sandra Bullock baby, sandra Bullock adopts black boy, people magazine, Louis Bardo Bullock etc.

The latest news is that Sandra Bullock has finally filed for divorce. The Oscar Winning actress had recently adopted a new born baby too. Sandra BUllock adopted baby boy Louis bardo Bullock some time ago, but she had been in the adoption process since the last 4 years. Sandra decided to reveal the adoption to the wrold about the adopted baby she brought home in January.

In an interview to People Magazine, Sandra said, "He's just perfect, I can't even describe him any other way. "It's like he's always been a part of our lives. "

Sandra Bullock's adopted black boy Louis was born in New Orleans and the People Magazine issue has Mother Sandra with her adopted baby Louis on the cover page. Sandra has already announced that she is the proud mother of Louis Bardo Bullock, a three and half month old boy.

Did you check out the issue of People Magazine which has Sandra Bullock and her adopted baby? Did u find the baby cute?


Sandra Bullock adopts black boy – Sandra Bullock is back and she surprises the world with an adopted black baby boy named Louis!

Despite her troubled (and soon to end) marriage, the Academy Award winning actress will not be alone.

From People:

“He’s just perfect, I can’t even describe him any other way,” Bullock reveals exclusively in the new issue of PEOPLE, announcing that she is the proud mother of Louis Bardo Bullock, a 3½-month-old boy, born in New Orleans. “It’s like he’s always been a part of our lives.”

Sandra and Jesse James began the adoption process four years ago and moved Louis into their home January.

t just shows how organized Sandra Bullock is.

For all this time the paparazzis were stalking her since the break-up of Jesse James scandal, they had not even managed a decent snap of her and if that wasn’t enough, news comes out smacking of their total humiliation- Sandra Bullock has been a mom since the January and no one had any wind of the fact.

Yes, People magazine reveals the explosive news in their latest issue, ready to hit the stands this Friday. And they do so because Sandra has saw it fit to disclose the news at this precise time.

The actress reveals that she and Jesse adopted the three and half-month-old boy, born in New Orleans, in January. They started talks concerning the adoption four years ago, but it materialised only this year.

She says that she had initially planned to disclose the happy news in the aftermath of the Oscars but as we all know too well now, her plans were derailed by some nobody of a tattooed model, Michelle “Bombshell” McGee.

Anyways, that chapter over, the proud mom can’t praise the little man more highly.

“He’s just perfect, I can’t even describe him any other way,” Bullock gushed. “It’s like he’s always been a part of our lives.”

Meanwhile, she also informs that she has already filed for divorce and has decided to carry on as a single mother. And she is taking steps to change the adoption status according to that.

“Yes, I have filed for divorce,” she told People. “I am sad and I am scared.”

And it may well be this child who is providing the strength Sandy needs to part ways with her rogue of a hubby, Jesse James.

Watch the mother and the baby boy at http://www.people.com/people/package/article/0,,20364464_20364639,00.html.

Actress Sandra Bullock has confirmed to People weekly, has filed for divorce from her husband, the “biker” Jesse James, whose infidelity multiple media jumped almost simultaneously she won the Oscar with “A Possible Dream / The blind side. ” Simultaneously, the star has announced that it had recently adopted a black boy born three and half months in New Orleans, which he called Bardo Louis Bullock, but the fact remained secret until now.

“I’m sad and I have fear,” says Sandra, but clarifies that he is happy raising a baby, which would not report until the end of all the media attention generated by their winning entries to the Golden Globes and Oscars, and instances of infidelity of her husband. “I’m still in that state of stupefaction with the child and life. When I received it I felt as if it had always been part of my life.”

The ex-husband suddenly Bullock, quoted in the same medium, said the final rupture had caused “a great void in my heart” but that would have been “selfish” on his part not to let it go. James, a businessman and character, speaks of a kind of addiction (perhaps to women or gender?) That have deprived the baby’s newly adopted (a process that began four years ago when they both looked happy) and his wife, ” two of the things I love most in life. “

THE biceps are smaller. The tabloid tales of excessive salary demands, followed by those of rural seclusion, have been replaced with a running commentary about her tweets, many of them concerning her activism against human trafficking. Her signature raspy voice and striking green eyes are unchanged, her only concessions to age a single strand of grey and a pair of reading glasses tucked discreetly on a coffee table next to her designer sunglasses.

Time and circumstances have transformed Demi Moore, 47, from a box-office superstar consumed with one-arm push-ups into this small-film actress, sitting in the lotus position.

Her breakout performance was in the 1985 film St Elmo's Fire. Then came the date movies (About Last Night), the steamy provocations (Indecent Proposal, Disclosure) and the blockbusters (Ghost, A Few Good Men), which begot the overexposed flops (Striptease) and, in the final body blow to the once-highest-paid actress in Hollywood, G.I. Jane, released in 1997.

Now Moore – aka Mrs Ashton Kutcher, her biggest role of the past few years – is back on the scene, quietly and no less eclectically, adding a period heist movie (Flawless), an ensemble piece (Bobby), a family angst picture (Happy Tears) and now The Joneses, an indie satire that opened on Friday. In it she plays the matriarch of a fake family, sent to suburbia to hawk face creams and golf clubs and other totems of conspicuous consumption. Her successes and limitations limn that curious piece of geography in Hollywood where the over-40 actress can encounter bounty (Sandra Bullock) or a spectacularly barren landscape (Michelle Pfeiffer).

She's also been cast as Miley Cyrus's mother in the forthcoming LOL, and cites as her proudest achievement her ability to endure fame and come out on the other side the mum and wife in psychic bliss.

"The thing I am most proud of is the relationship I have with my children, with my husband, with my ex-husband, with his wife, with my friends," Moore says during an hour-long chat at a brasserie in West Hollywood. "And within that, with myself, I am most proud of my willingness – well, not my willingness, but the grace in which I have dealt with and continue to deal with my obstacles and challenges, and my continued desire and ability to embrace my failings and to appreciate that which is imperfect."

Moore has been, at various times, less performer than cultural Rorschach test. Did you love her when she bared her naked pregnancy on the cover of Vanity Fair, demanding real Hollywood money and snagging a hot, successful husband 15 years her junior? Or were you more impressed with her for ditching the scene for nearly a decade in favour of car-pooling and grocery shopping in Hailey, Idaho, and for having a highly civilised divorce?

Or have you never forgiven her for her entourage during the early 1990s, hate her for stripping it down, taking it off all together and remaining uncommonly gorgeous in a city where many women sport a face that seems to stay the same for decades, thanks to modern science?

Either way, you know her and her quintessential Hollywood narrative. Born in Roswell, New Mexico, Moore escaped a chaotic and tragic childhood that included her father's abandonment and the suicide of her alcoholic adopted father, who dragged the family from city to city before settling in Los Angeles in 1976, where she attended Fairfax High School.

After quitting school to act, she landed her first big role on the soap opera General Hospital, and her film career was sparked by what could be described as Brat Pack serendipity. Joel Schumacher, the director and co-writer of St Elmo's Fire, a tale of 20-something angst, worked in an office across the hall from John Hughes – the creator of 1980s teenage touchstones like Pretty In Pink and Ferris Bueller's Day Off – who died last year. Moore had gone to audition for Hughes, Schumacher says, and had got tired of waiting.

He had been trying to cast the role of Jules, the vexed drama queen who botches her own suicide attempt, and had been frustrated in his efforts. Schumacher peered down the hall of his floor one day and spotted the young actress leaving.

"Literally as I walked out my door, I saw this flash of hair," Schumacher says in a telephone interview. "Run after her!" he said to his co-writer, Carl Kurlander. "After five minutes he came back panting and said her name is Demi Moore, and she's on General Hospital. So she came in. She rode a motorcycle those days without a helmet. She was, I think it would be appropriate to call her, a very wild child.

"She took that role, and she made it her own. And it was at that point that she really started disciplining herself to not be the wild child."

As Moore's career exploded, she became known throughout Hollywood as one of its most disciplined, if demanding, performers. Her zeal for trappings like the private jet and the bevy of weird outfits, and for demanding box-office gender parity, brought her the moniker Gimme Moore and unflattering press coverage even as she churned out hits.

"There was a real misperception," Moore says. "Part of it was the times we were living in. They were very excessive times." In trying to make the money she thought she deserved and to keep her family around her, she says, "you have to be willing to take the brunt of some judgment and criticism if you are seeking to create an opportunity of change that will not just affect you".

She takes a sip from her Starbucks cup, which no one in the restaurant seems to mind. She's a regular. "At the same time, I have to step back – and not in a way that is in any way a victim – and say: 'OK, what was it that I was doing? What was it that I was putting out that also created that?' And take responsibility."

Her day of reckoning was nigh. In 1998, following the box-office flop of G.I. Jane, Moore made her shift from box-office star to small-town mum. Her mother died, her marriage with Bruce Willis hit the skids. She sat on the set of Passion Of Mind in Paris and felt things coming apart.

"While I was there, I realised that my children weren't getting the best of me, the film wasn't getting the best of me, and I didn't even know where I was in the mix," she says. "As a product of divorced parents I realised I needed to just be in one place and allow my children to regain their equilibrium, to ground and find another centre, and I didn't feel that was something that I could do while being off on location and running around."

It was not that she retired, as was widely reported, she says; she was just resting. Her three children became "my entire focus," she says, "and without a time frame that I could say, 'All right, in a year or two years.' It was all just an instinct of knowing that it would be revealed." So there were several years of volunteering in classrooms, and going on field trips.

And then, she says, her kids had had enough. Enter Kutcher, whom she met at a dinner party in New York in 2003. "My kids really got to a point after living in a small town," she says, "when they really felt they needed something bigger, something with more diversity. They really pushed me to come back here. Then I met my husband and had my own motivations."

Back in Los Angeles, where she and Kutcher married in a 2005 kabbalah ceremony – she has practised that movement of Judaism for eight years – she seems to spend as much time on Twitter dispensing paediatric recommendations to strangers ("dr jay Gordon was my Pediatrician for all 3 of my girls and he was truly one of the best Hope he can help") and lobbying senators on behalf of her foundation to end sex slavery as she does reading scripts.

Moore's re-emergence in Hollywood came in 2003, as the spectacularly in-shape villain of Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle. But the big-budget mainstream entertainments are mostly gone.

Moore – who wears tiny-checked trousers, jazz shoes and a black sweater to our interview – is looking for roles that are "creatively satisfying," she says. "There are limited opportunities just because not as many films are being made, and so you combine that with the fact that women have always spoken out about the struggle for good quality roles, and then you add into it that we are a very youth-driven society, and that brings other challenges. And I feel in a certain way I didn't really fit in a box they could navigate."

Moore's situation is both odd and typical, Schumacher says. "Middle-aged women can have huge careers on television but not as much in movies. It's like they celebrate you when you're the pretty young thing, then there is a dead zone until menopause, when they rediscover you and give you an Academy Award."

Her latest film, The Joneses, co-starring David Duchovny, explores the notion of hyperconsumption, which Moore says fascinates her. "I love the message that ultimately while stuff is great and there's nothing wrong with wanting a nice bag or a nice car or a nice house or nice clothes it ultimately is not the answer to our happiness or fulfilment, that it's our human connection with one another, that without that none of the other stuff matters anyway."

Derrick Borte, the writer and director of The Joneses, says: "She has this hard shell, a professional, driven exterior that she shows so well on camera, but she shows cracks in such a brilliant way."

For now, it seems, Moore is comfortable with her cracks – both real and fictionalised – for the big screen. She has a husband who she is "absolutely" confident will be at her side when she is 70. She is dedicated to her foundation. Movies are now the icing, not the cake.

roger federer

Nationality: SUI (Switzerland)

Birthdate: August 08, 1981
Birthplace: Basel, Switzerland
Residence: Bottmingen, Switzerland
Turned Pro: 1998
Plays: Right-handed
2009 Ranking: 1

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Strengths: Does everything well; big forehand; great footwork; fast
Weaknesses: Trouble hitting high backhands; 5-set record

With a superb performance, Federer matched the open-era record of winning four Australian Opens by winning against Andy Murray. It was also a time of firsts - first as a father, first of the new decade. Congrats Roger! In retrospective, Fed was just two points away from holding all four slams at the same, a non-calendar slam.

July 05: Federer has done it - by winning his 6th Wimbledon in a heart-wrenching final against Andy Roddick, Federer staked his claim on the history books by surpassing Pete Sampras' record. Tennis history is too tangled and intertwined by various events as Rod Laver says, "You know, it's hard for anyone to come out and say who's the best ever." And here's a salute to greats of the game. Federer is all set to enjoy the game for the rest of his career. Enjoy a look-back at Roger's career so far (courtesy of ATP Tour)

June 07: It's destiny at its finest hour. Admist the support of French crowd along with slight drizzle, Federer cracked his own Holy Grail - winning the French Open at his 10th attempt and his first win in four finals. Astonishing as it is, Federer has now equaled the Open Era record of 14 Grand slam titles. And fittingly, some inspiring words straight from Kipling - read by Federer and Nadal.

"If you can keep your head when all about you are losing theirs and blaming it on you;
If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you, but make allowance for their doubting too;
If you can wait and not be tired by waiting..."

Oct 13: Federer stuck with his winning formula this year and reaped dividends as he won his fifth straight US Open title. Only three men in the history of the game has more US Open titles - Sears, Larned and the great Tilden. Here's a highlights video. Champions always have known to come back when the odds are small, lights are dim and the stage left behind..

Aug 17: Roger Federer has finally achieved his long-time dream of being an Olympic champion by winning an Olympics Gold with his good friend, Stan Wawrinka at the doubles. What a glorious day!

July 31: This devastating month of July will be viewed by fans and historians as a key turning point in Roger's career. From a heart-wrenching loss in the Wimbledon final to his twolosses in the hard court master series, the four years at the top has taken its toll. It's likely that is his Number One streak of 234 consecutive weeks will come to a screeching halt. "It's a pity", as Roger would say..

June 22: Against the green background of grass courts, Roger won Halle for the fifth time. The timing was impeccable to erase the disappointing memory of losing the final at Roland Garros the last three years.

Apr 25: Roger is back with a bang as he won a sensational match at Monte Carlo against his famous nemesis, David Nalbandian. Signs are here that Roger is finally fighting off the flu, lack of conditioning and match fitness. Now he plays Djokovic, to whom he lost at the Australian Open.

Mar 1: At Australian Open, after the stomach sickness, a tough 5-setter with Tipsarevic and loss in semi-finals against Djokovic, Federer gave a great, exhaustive interview as he starts Dubai Open this week. And he won the fourth straight Laureus and first to do so. Congrats Roger!

Dec 15: A nice video to wrap up the year. Great shots of Federer from 2007. Happy Holidays!

Oct 19: Here's a cool painting by Stephen Holland.

Sep 09: After a great summer on hard courts, winning at Cincy and finals at Montreal, Federer won his fourth consecutive US Open against wind, great fight from Djokovic and bomb serves from Isner and Roddick. Truly a great classy effort for his 12th Grand slam. Check out this great article. "Surely, watching Federer is the closest any of us will get to paradise on earth in a sports arena." claims this awesome article.

July 15: Federer did it with panache to a 5-peat at Wimbledon, as this commentary exclaims, "What Federer also did, and really only he could, was in one match pay homage to an entire history of tennis. He saluted Bill Tilden’s generation with his attire, honoured Laver’s grand Australians with his manners, Connors with his spirit, McEnroe with his art, Borg with five Wimbledon wins, and when he twice was 15.40 in the fifth, and used serves to extricate himself from distress, one word flew across the mind: Sampras." Can't say much better, can we?

June 23: The grass is always greener as Wimbledon is this Sunday! Roger fans unite and give him a big wish as he aims to match history in the next two weeks.

June 10: With a heart-breaker final against Nadal on the red clay, Federer skipped Halle to rest his minor injury. He has made the finals of 8 consecutive grand slam finals. Never done before!!

May 23: After breaking with his coach, Roger was on fire (crazy rally, reaction) against Nadal at Hamburg masters. With his fourth clay masters, Roger is on perfect timing for Roland Garros. Good luck Roger on the looming French Open test.



Roger Federer of Switzerland has won more Grand Slam tennis titles than any player in the history of men's tennis. He defeated Andy Roddick at Wimbledon in July 2009 for his 15th major victory, eclipsing the previous mark of 14 by Pete Sampras, the retired American champion. By breaking the record, Federer has positioned himself for consideration as the finest player ever.

His Wimbledon victory was epic. The fifth set stretched to 30 games before Federer finally broke Roddick's serve and prevailed 16-14. It was, in number of games, the longest fifth set ever played in a Grand Slam final. With the victory, he also reclaimed the world number one ranking from rival Raphael Nadal.

Federer won the French Open a month earlier - the one Grand Slam singles trophy he was lacking, and the only one of the game's four most prestigious tournaments to be played on clay.

Federer became the sixth man to win the singles title at all of the Grand Slam tournaments: the Australian Open, the French Open, Wimbledon and the United States Open. The others to have managed it are Don Budge, Fred Perry, Roy Emerson, Rod Laver and Andre Agassi.

Federer has still not won the Grand Slam, which requires winning all four major titles in the same calendar year. (The only men to do that are Budge and Laver. Laver managed it in 1962 as an amateur and in 1969 as a professional.) But Federer's achievement at all four majors is without equivalent. He has won three titles and reached four finals in Australia. He has reached the final four times in Paris, and won once. He has won six titles and reached seven finals at Wimbledon. And he has taken five titles at the United States Open. All of this was achieved by the time he was 27, in a seven-year span.

Federer's victory at the French Open came after a year of disappointment. He had been ranked as the No. 1-seeded men's player in the world for more than four years - a record 237 consecutive weeks, from February 2, 2004 to August 17, 2008. In 2008, in the midst of that run, Rafael Nadal - who had won the last three French Opens - embarrassed him, 6-1, 6-3, 6-0, in the French Open final.

It was a harbinger of bigger disappointments. Nadal ended Federer's five-year run at Wimbledon, won the 2008 Olympic gold medal in singles and took over the No. 1 ranking. Although Federer recovered to win his fifth straight United States Open title in September 2008, he lost again to Nadal in 2009's first Grand slam tournament, the Australian Open.

Federer was born August 8, 1981 in Basel, in northwest Switzerland, bordering Germany and France. According to his biography at tennis-x.com, an informational tennis Web site, he began playing tennis at age 8. His mother, Lynette, is South African and his father, Robert, is Swiss; they met on a business trip. His idol was Boris Becker and his favorite was Pete Sampras.

Federer became the No. 1 junior tennis player in the world in 1998 and won the junior singles and doubles titles at Wimbledon that year. His first Grand Slam tournament was the French Open in 1999, where he lost in the first round to Patrick Rafter. He won his first Grand Slam singles title in 2003 at Wimbledon. He has established the Roger Federer Foundation to support projects that help children learn worldwide and that promote sports.

With his victory at Wimbledon, Federer has won 60 singles titles and more than $49 million dollars in prize money.

rangers

The history of the American Ranger is a long and colorful saga of courage, daring, and outstanding leadership. It is a story of men whose skills in the art of fighting have seldom been surpassed. Rangers are capable of conducting squad through regimental size operations using a variety of infiltration techniques including airborne, air assault and ground platforms. The purpose of the United States Army Ranger Association (USARA) is to promote and preserve the heritage, spirit, image and service of U.S. Army Rangers.

PHILADELPHIA — In the end, the Rangers’ late-season dream run came down to a single moment, Olli Jokinen bearing down on Flyers goalie Brian Boucher, the fans on their feet, a trip to the playoffs on the line for both teams.
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Boucher made the save. The Wachovia Center exploded with joy. The Rangers filed dejectedly from their bench to their dressing room, their season ended in the cruelest way imaginable.

“I’m just so empty, I don’t know what to say,” goalie Henrik Lundqvist said after the Rangers were outscored in the shootout, 2-1, after a 1-1 tie through regulation and overtime.

They are out of the postseason for the first time in five seasons despite ending the schedule with a 7-1-2 run, a surprising display of skill and confidence after a mostly miserable season. It left them wondering, what if?

“It’s frustrating because for the first time all year, we figured out what it meant to play as a team and to play for each other,” Brandon Dubinsky said of the last two and a half weeks of the season. “The frustrating part is that it happened too late.”

Lundqvist was brilliant in stopping 46 Philadelphia shots before being beaten in the shootout by Danny Briere’s well-stickhandled forehander and Claude Giroux’s blast between his legs.

Until Sunday, the Rangers’ comeback had enabled them to make up 10 points on the slumping Flyers in three weeks, the last 2 by beating them, 4-3, on Friday night at Madison Square Garden.

That made Sunday’s game a winner take all, and it came down to Jokinen after Erik Christensen was stopped by Boucher and P. A. Parenteau scored. Jokinen tried to slip the puck between Boucher’s legs, but Boucher made the stop that put the Flyers, not the Rangers, into the postseason.

Coach John Tortorella would not say why he did not use Marian Gaborik, the Rangers’ 42-goal scorer, in the shootout. But Gaborik said afterward that Tortorella had picked him to go fourth.

“I was going to go for it,” Gaborik said, but he never got the chance.

Jokinen’s career shootout success rate is 38.9 percent. Gaborik’s is 11.1 percent.

For a long time it looked as if the Rangers would win the game in regulation. Jody Shelley tipped Michal Rozsival’s shot past Boucher just 3 minutes 27 seconds into the game. It was a lovely tip from Shelley, whose back was to the net, giving him his second goal of the season — the previous one coming Friday night.

The Rangers did not register a shot after the 6:55 mark of the period and ended up being outshot, 18-4. They survived an anxious sequence when a shot from defenseman Matt Carle hit the crossbar, rebounded against Lundqvist’s back and dropped behind him. Rather than rolling into the net, the puck rolled just wide of the post.

The Rangers carried that narrow lead into the third period, the Flyers dominating territorially but too inept around the net to make the Rangers pay. Most of the Rangers’ few bright spots offensively were provided by the line of Shelley, Artem Anisimov and Brandon Prust.

The Rangers’ lead lasted until 13:06 remained in the game, when Anisimov, killing a penalty, tried too soft a breakaway pass in the neutral zone. It was intercepted by Jeff Carter, who started a break the other way. The pinballing puck wound up loose in front, and Carle shoveled it past a wrong-footed Lundqvist.

The score stayed tied the rest of regulation and through four-on-four overtime, which the Rangers survived by parking the team bus in front of Lundqvist, a necessary step in light of their 1-7 record in overtime this season.

In 65 minutes of play, the Flyers outshot the Rangers, 47-25. Then it was on to the shootout, and bitter disappointment.

“If we’d had some consistency throughout the year, we wouldn’t be in this spot,” said Chris Drury, the Rangers’ captain. “We feel really bad for Henrik; it was one of the best games I’ve ever seen him play. We don’t get much in the way of offense for him, and it comes down to a tough shootout loss.”

Dubinsky said: “We had an opportunity, and it hurts not to have found a way. It should never get to this point, a shootout this late in the season.”

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Kerry Fraser was honored before the game for working his 1,904th and final regular-season game as an N.H.L. referee, the most in league history, and just about closing the book on a 30-season career that has included 12 Stanley Cup finals and selection in a recent Sports Illustrated poll of players as the N.H.L.’s top ref. Fraser, 57, is famous for his lush, never-out-of-place coiffure, which he did not cover with a helmet until 2006. But he is also known as a strong union man who has sometimes run afoul of league management and who testified in support of Dean Warren, an officials union activist seeking reinstatement as a referee after being fired by the league in 2008.

proflowers

The 12-year-old company provides over 150 varieties of fresh cut flowers to millions of satisfied customers throughout the United States.
We are excited to be a part of this city and to be a part of its business community,” said John Kuehn, senior vice president of supply chain operations, ProFlowers.

Barb Jespersen and Lane Holbert of Cassidy Turley and David Sours and Kevin Kelly of CB Richard Ellis in Dallas represented the Logistics Pointe (Westmount Realty Capital).
Progress Software, leverancier van enterprise software die ondernemingen in staat stelt om direct te reageren op veranderende omstandigheden, introduceert de nieuwste versie van de Progress® Sonic® Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) 8.0. Deze versie combineert de voordelen van open standaarden met de vele functies waarover Progress Sonic-producten beschikken. Sonic ESB 8.0 ondersteunt de open ontwikkelingsstandaarden, verbetert de constante beschikbaarheid van de architectuur en is beter geschikt voor kleine implementaties en multi-site omgevingen waarin een groot aantal transacties plaatsvindt.

Een belangrijke eigenschap van Sonic ESB 8.0 is de ondersteuning van RESTful (Representation State Transfer) architecturen.
De gepatenteerde Continuous Availability Architecture die geïntegreerd is in het Sonic ESB-platform is uitgebreid in de nieuwe Sonic 8.0 versie. Deze nieuwe versie verlegt de grenzen op het gebied van SOA en bedrijfsintegratie. Dit door de kracht en flexibiliteit van een open model te koppelen aan de uitgebreide multi-site operations-beheermogelijkheden en uitrolmogelijkheden. Deze functionaliteit wordt ondersteund door de Continuous Availability Architecture van Progress, wat zorgt voor optimale effectiviteit en betrouwbaarheid van de messaging infrastructuur.”

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people magazine

people magazine

"It has nothing to do with the way she looks. It has everything to do with who she is."

And Roberts isn't the only A-list star to dip her toes in the beauty arena.

Longtime contract virgin Jennifer Aniston, who's also one of this years "Most Beautiful," finally took the leap with the announcement that she'll be launching her own fragrance, Lolavie -- which will debut in the UK's Harrods this summer before making the journey to US shores in the fall.
No stranger to the beauty world, Jennifer Lopez is back from a brief career hiatus tending to two-year old twins Emme and Max -- and the always-glowing star just landed on the cover of makeup artist and long time best friend Scott Barnes' book, About Face: Amazing Transformations Using The Secrets Of The Top Celebrity Makeup Artist. The 25 year-old tells People magazine that her two must-have beauty staples are, "red lipstick and sandwiches."


The people of America have spoken! This year's People magazine's most beautiful list is out and we’re going to tell you who's hot (just to let you know that we are officially jealous of all the celebs who appear on this list…we want their genes dammit)!

We all know that the calibre of beautiful ladies in Hollywood is amazing, do we have to remind people of how much we drool over what they wear or how they can make a potato sack look haute couture?

So it comes to no surprise that the likes of Jennifer Aniston, Kristen Stewart, Scarlett Johansson and Taylor Swift have their name on the list.

Kim Kardashian is in good company as she was recently honored in People magazine as one of the Most Beautiful People of 2010. Kim joins stars like Robert Pattinson, Bradley Cooper, and Justin Bieber on the list.

The Keeping Up with the Kardashians star seemed genuinely thrilled to be included in this star-studded group of actors, singers, and models.

People magazine named Julia Roberts, 42, the most beautiful woman for their People's Most Beautiful People issue. The actress's new film "Eat, Pray, Love," based on a novel with the same title, puts her smiled back in the limelight.

The article raves over Roberts' and her minimalist approach to wearing coverup. "It has everything to do with who she is."

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Tito's attorney Chip Matthews said that Jenna's been battling addiction to the painkiller for more than a year now, and that Tito and family members have been protecting her.
He claims that Jenna had a relapse and that Tito confronted her about the drugs he claims to have found.

Matthews claimed Jenna has been to rehab, and that her addiction has led to multiple suicide calls to 911.

So what's Jenna's side of this? During the news conference the former porn star was packing up to leave for Las Vegas.

We're told Jenna's dad is taking care of Tito and Jenna's twin sons.


The focus of the Ortiz research program is on structural or load-bearing biological materials, in particular musculoskeletal (internal to the body) and exoskeletal (external to the body) tissues. The Ortiz research group studies these fascinating materials using expertise in the field of “nanomechanics” including; the measurement and prediction of extremely small forces and displacements, the quantification of nanoscale spatially-varying mechanical properties, the identification of local constitutive laws, the formulation of molecular-level structure-property relationships, and the investigation of new mechanical phenomena existing at small length scales. Novel experimental and theoretical methods are employed (see Table below) involving increasing levels of complexity from individual molecules to biomimetic molecular assemblies to single cells to the nanoscale properties of the in-tact tissue. The result, and ultimate objective of the Ortiz research program, is a fundamental, mechanistic-based understanding of tissue function, quality, and pathology. The scientific foundation being formed has relevance to both the medical and engineering fields. In addition, the discovery of new nanoscale design principles and energy-dissipating mechanisms will enable the production of improved and increasingly advanced biologically-inspired structural engineering materials and protective defense technologies that exhibit "mechanical property amplification" - that is, dramatic improvements in mechanical properties (e.g. increases in strength and toughness) for a material relative to its constituents.

Assemblyman Ortiz, Chairman of Puerto Rican and Hispanic Task Force, commends his fellow colleagues for their hard work to make the weekend a memorable time and the Latino and Hispanic community for such wonderful attendance.
The contemporary work which parallels the art of indigenous ceramists to the north, the Hopi, Zuni, Acoma Indians and others, has come to be known as Mata Ortiz Pottery.

MataOrtizPottery.com specializes in the sale of authentic Mata Ortiz pottery. In addition, we have produced a documentary about the artists and written the award-winning children's book, "The Pot That Juan Built."

oil spill in gulf of mexico

oil spill in gulf of mexico

The oil slick has grown to 48 miles by 39 miles wide. The explosion and fire of the oil rig on April 20th, 2010 burned over 24 hours (see video here) and leaked 700,000 gallons of diesel fuel into the Gulf of Mexico. It was originally expected to add an additional 300,000 barrels of oil per day from the leak into the water. This image showing the leaking oil was provided by the US Coast Guard. BP quoted National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration experts as saying the spill is "very thin" and on the surface of the ocean.


An ROV arm attempts to activate the blowout preventer at the Deepwater Horizon wellhead in the Gulf of Mexico.
(Credit: deepwaterhorizonresponse.com)

The agencies have deployed four remotely operated vehicles (ROVs) to the wellhead about 5,000 feet below the ocean surface. While ROVs have been used by the oil and gas industry for more than 30 years, this particular mission is highly complex due to the great depth of the wellhead, as well as the first of its kind. Another idea is to install funnel-shaped covers at the site to capture the oil.

The Coast Guard believes the well is leaking about 42,000 gallons of oil a day into the ocean. Eleven workers went missing last week when the rig exploded and sank to the seabed.

Some are speculating that the accident is the worst U.S. offshore oil rig spill in decades. "As time passes, however, the probability of success in locating the 11 missing persons decreases."

Transocean, based in Zug, Switzerland and the world's largest offshore drilling contractor, said some of the missing may not have been able to escape the rig.

U.S. lawmakers called for the Coast Guard and Minerals Management Service to investigate the incident.

It was unclear whether the rig sank to the bottom in about 5,000 feet of water, or how much oil still flowed or had spilled from the well, officials said.

A remotely operated unmanned submarine, commonly used in the industry, was deployed to determine the exact location and condition of the rig and the situation of the well, which extends 5,000 feet through water and 13,000 feet beneath the seabed.

"We continue to assist Transocean in the effort to halt the flow of oil from the well through the use of a remotely operated vehicle to activate the subsea blowout preventer," said David Rainey, vice president of Gulf of Mexico Exploration for BP, a leading oil and gas operator in the Gulf.

The well in Tuesday's accident was the first of a series to be drilled and was in the process of being temporarily plugged pending production.

"The well had been cased off.

oil spill gulf of mexico 2010

The leak, discovered Saturday, follows this week's explosion and sinking of the Transocean Deepwater Horizon drilling rig. The rig, owned by Transocean Ltd. "The team on the ground and those at sea have the group's full resources behind them. That mechanism was originally thought to have been activated at the time the rig sank, according to the U.S. Coast Guard.
The company said it's deploying 32 spill response vessels and five aircraft to the area. About one-third of the world's supply of oil dispersant--about 100,000 gallons--is ready to be used, the company said. BP cited the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration experts said the spill “very thin” and is located on the surface of the water ocean.The the result of infrastructure failure drilling 5000 in surface waters of the Gulf of Mexico . The cause of the explosion has not been confirmed.
The vehicles will attempt to engage a device called a blowout preventer, which can seal the well shut to prevent sudden releases of pressure within the well, like the one that may have caused the rig to explode. According to BP, the company that operated the well, the attempt was the first of its kind in the world.
They are currently estimated to be releasing around 42,000 gallons of oil a day into the Gulf of Mexico, and the oil slick on the surface of the ocean is estimated to cover an area about 48 by 39 miles at its widest points. The impact of the spill on wildlife is currently unknown; there have been no reports of animal casualties, though whales were seen in the vicinity of the spill yesterday.

According to officials, there are two other possible ways to contain the oil spill if the attempt to seal the well is unsuccessful. One option would be to install a large dome over the leak and send the collected oil to the surface, where it would be collected by ships.